I wrote this for a forum post on the Coursera Sustainability course I mentioned in my last post and figured since I spent time on it I might as well post it here! Basically I am arguing that the Jonathan Foley TED video “The other inconveient truth” that we were asked to watch says that we need Continue reading →

While unemployed I’m refreshing my sustainability knowledge by taking Coursera’s Sustainability Course. This week the focus is on water and agriculture. I’ve also recently sent out my (5 year old!) thesis on reducing slash and burn agriculture in Indonesia to a potential employer as a writing sample. These two combined have got me thinking of Continue reading →

As an environmentalist, an economist, a computer scientist – I’m a bit obsessed with efficiency. I just wanted to write a little bit about how I think about efficiency from different points of view. Perhaps one of the things that divides a programmer from a computer scientist that programs is that a computer scientist will Continue reading →